When a candidate sends you his resume at 9:28 AM on the first day back from a long holiday weekend, and then sends a follow up message the very same day at 4:30 PM to ask if you got it and ask for a response, is it totally out of line to reply with:

“Yes, thank you, I did receive it but haven’t had a chance to look at it yet. I do try to give helpful advice to as many people as I can, however. So you might like to know that generally 24 hours is the minimum amount of time one should let pass before following up on a resume submission. Anything less is more like stalking than follow-up.”

I’m putting it here so I don’t write it in the email. You see, Internet? You are better than therapy.

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